This exhibition, presented during the European Heritage Days, focuses on the alchemy of hybrid bodies that unfolds at the scale of the Art Centre. This exhibition project follows an artist’s creative residency.
The exhibition consists of a set of glass sculptures, the majority of which were torched, a technique used in scientific glassware to produce laboratory instruments such as decanting bulbs, crystallizations, beakers or sometimes more complex combinations. The repertoire of often anthropomorphic forms of scientific glassware is here diverted to create hybrid anatomies, between animal, plant and cyborg. The sculptures inhabiting the Art Centre are placed in space using stainless steel elements usually used in organic chemistry laboratories.
These works, drawing on the iconography of chemistry and alchemy, echo the history of the building of the Centre d'art contemporain/ Passages. It was indeed in this old hosiery that the recipe for a dye of a black inverdissable was developed. In addition, the glass pieces are part of the regional tradition of glass work, which, from Meisenthal to the Trojan stained glass windows have made the reputation of the glass arts of the Grand Est.